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“ARE YOU ALL SEEING THIS” (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 166 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Wait until she finds out about daemons.

[–] netizen@programming.dev 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My atheist configuration doesn't allow me to believe in daemons: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10022442/37361421-26026212-26f3-11e8-8e97-d5136bce5e41.gif

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why's it a static gif

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That's... a great question. What's the purpose of a gif with only one frame?

[–] netizen@programming.dev 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're young. Young enough to have to google my username meaning. Maybe also google what GIF means: Graphics Interchange Format. Long tima go you could find images on the internet, and they were always GIF, because JPG didn't exist.

But yes, it's quite strange nowadays, I agree Oh, yes, I used the net before smileys were a thing :-)

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

I'm not quite that young. Netizen is a "citizen of the internet", IIRC. More specifically, it's a portmanteau of "internet" and "citizen".

I had also heard what the meaning of GIF was, though not so often that I could remember it off the top of my head.

I'm not quite as old as the JPG format, but I do still remember using dial-up. I still remember accidentally logging into the internet when my dad was on the phone one day. I could hear his voice through the computer speakers. I immediately closed the browser. It was something that'd, surprisingly, never happened while I was on the computer before.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The same purpose as a PNG or JPEG?

You know that GIF is not specifically a format for animations, right? It’s just a lossless image format.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it's almost always used for animations. Seeing one that's not animated just feels... weird.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 3 points 6 months ago

Now, that’s just a recent development. 20 years ago it was a common format for images on the interwebs.

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